Hint to anyone looking for a brilliant writer: I’m available. (Note to parents: I am also applying for jobs, not just hoping they will appear.)
Today I applied for unemployment. They let you do this by phone, and the lady on the phone was quite nice to me. They said to go to their website on Sunday and fill out another form to update them, and that from then on I would have to do that every week until I got a job. Benefits don’t kick in until my second week with no work, though.
So to be productive, I took all my rolled assorted change to the bank and deposited it. When I got home I vacuumed the apartment, and mopped the floors– and not with that wimpy swiffer-wet thing. I used the real mop, with Murphy’s Oil Soap, and plenty of elbow grease. Then I scrubbing-bubbled the sink and tub and toilet, and the floor of the bathroom. Then I took a few drops of essential eucalyptus oil M had for putting in candles, and I put it on the sponge and went over the bathroom floor and the outside of the tub and toilet again. Then I took the bristly brush and scrubbed the mildew off the shower curtain. Then I had to go back over the bathroom floor because while I was doing the shower curtain, I had got footprints and sweat all over the floor.
Then I went back to the kitchen, and washed the mop and the bucket, and filled it with clean hot water and six or ten drops of essential lemongrass oil, and re-mopped the whole apartment to make sure I hadn’t left any soap on it. This house has not been so clean since we moved in.
Now I am going to start on dinner so that when M. gets home it can be ready.
I plan to be wearing either an apron, or a dress made entirely of plastic wrap.
Secretly Ironic 